Recipes
Tropical Tomato and Mango Salad
The sun on your plate, that is this easy to prepare salad with mango and tomato. The origin of this salad is probably India. There, in the sometimes extremely hot...
Oriental Cucumber Salad on TikTok
It will not have escaped even the slightly older reader of this website's attention, but cucumbers were in high demand in the summer of 2024. The cause was an unexpected...
Italian berry dressing
No, this is not a dressing for your summer fruit, but a spectacular dressing, in which berries play the leading role. It is a delicious summery dressing for every salad....
Bulgarian salad
The Bulgarian salad (or Šopska salata) is, like the Greek salad and the Caprese salad, a modern invention.Origin of Bulgarian saladThe Bulgarian salad first appeared in a Bulgarian cookbook from 1940. In the...
Black olives from the oven
Fried black olives (Olive nero al forno) is a typical dish that is made on a large scale especially in southern Italy. They are served as an aperitif, together with meat and...
Toum (or Lebanese garlic sauce)
Toum is a Lebanese garlic sauce that is related to several other sauces in the countries around the Mediterranean. You probably know the aioli, that French garlic sauce that is...
Caprese Salad with Mango
As has been noted a few times before, the Caprese Salad is not a classic, but a relatively young invention. This salad originated in 1924 and perhaps we can call it a...
Caprese Salad with Beetroot
Not everyone feels like fresh salads during the dark and somewhat gloomy winter months. But salads are healthy and fit into most diets, even the low-carb diet. No Italian will...
Healthy Green Pasta
A pasta that is not only super fast, but also uses only a few ingredients. The winter vegetables in the pasta sauce provide a delicious and almost silky green sauce....
Focaccia with Olive Oil and Rosemary
There are days when you can get a little tired of that brown sandwich with cheese, sausage or jam. But, if you have an hour to yourself in the weekend...
Make your own tapenade
Nowadays you can buy containers of industrially made tapenade in every supermarket. It doesn't taste bad, I have to admit, but take a look at the list of ingredients. You...
Gegrilde Abrikozensalade
Gegrilde Abrikozensalade Deze keer nemen we de gelegenheid te baat om een (soort van) ode te brengen aan Jamie Oliver, de Britse kok die de Mediterrane kookkunst voor iedereen bereikbaar...
